After becoming a God King, because he could never find the Divine Consciousness fragments of his mentor Electrolux, he decided to use the resources at his disposal to upgrade the [Spectral Demiplane] his teacher left him into a full [Spectral Plane], keeping it as a memento.
To his surprise, once the [Spectral Plane] finished upgrading, the massive number of undead creatures within it provided him with a considerable amount of Power of Faith. Using that as a foundation, combined with the inheritance his teacher left behind, he created the Divine Position [Necromantic Holy Magic God] and the Ultra-Divine Artifact [Necromantic Heavenly Calamity Magic Staff].
However, due to the rules of the [Great God Circle], he couldn't attach it to himself... because none of the gods, Tang San included, wanted to see another "Dual-God Coexistence."
Left with no choice, he had to keep this Divine Position in reserve as his ultimate trump card.
When the [Great God Circle] discovered the Holy Demon Continent—the location of the God of Heavenly Punishment—they extended an invitation to Long Haochen, the God of Light, and his wife Sheng Cai'er, the Goddess of Death. As a condition for joining, his senior brother Long Haochen requested that the Great God Circle help him complete the return of the God of Heavenly Punishment to the God of Heavenly Protection, the so-called "Bright Moon in the Sky" project.
In reality, he was the one who assisted Long Haochen in executing it; it could be said that he was the second-generation [Necromantic Holy Magic God].
Because he gained the Power of Faith from the entire Spectral Plane and his Ultra-Divine Artifact, he shed the title of "Weakest God King," passing it on to the newly promoted Destruction God King Tang Wulin and Life God King Gu Yuena, leaping into the ranks of the top five strongest in the Great Divine Circle.
It was normal for the Silver Dragon King Gu Yuena, who possessed the divine power of creation, to inherit the Goddess of Life Divine Position. But for Tang Wulin, whose Martial Soul was the "Wood-Attribute" Blue Silver Emperor, to inherit the Destruction Divine Position... that was a bit of a dark joke.
The reason Tang San gave was high-sounding, something about "recommending talent despite kinship"... claiming Tang Wulin could control the intent of destruction because he had long resisted the mad will of the Golden Dragon King. In truth, he just didn't want the original God of Destruction to return to the God Realm.
On the surface, Tang Wulin broke through to the God King Realm by inheriting the Destruction Divine Position, but in reality, his compatibility with it was abysmal! The "Wood Attribute" and "Destruction Attribute" were in constant conflict; such fundamental opposition couldn't be solved by a simple phrase like "mutual generation and restriction."
This conflict of Divine Positions resulted in Tang Wulin being undisputedly the weakest in the Great Divine Circle. Even receiving vast amounts of faith from the Douluo Star was useless; he could only use that power to barely maintain the absolute baseline of the God King Realm.
The importance of the Power of Faith to the God Realm and its gods goes without saying. If a god can obtain a large amount of faith, their cultivation and advancement naturally become easier.
Take the original God of Emotions, his master Rong Nianbing, for example. Aside from the strength of his own Divine Position, his seven quasi-Ultra-Divine Artifacts, and one true Ultra-Divine Artifact, he had an entire plane of people providing him with faith. This was one reason why he possessed combat power not inferior to Tang San despite being only a First-Class God.
Tang San was the same. He didn't hesitate to use the atrocious [Ten-Thousand-Year Grand Plan] to elevate his status in the hearts of the people on the Douluo Continent. The massive amount of faith and planar energy harvested over tens of thousands of years forcibly pushed him to God King status and fed his divine-artifact-level Sea God Trident until it became an Ultra-Divine Artifact, making him nearly equal to the God of Destruction who had cultivated for millions of years.
However, the fact that he had grown stronger made the reborn Tang San quite dissatisfied. In private, Tang San criticized him frequently, saying he "didn't focus on unity" and that the Tang Family becoming too strong would incite the wariness of other God Kings.
By then, he was no longer willing to back down and argued with Tang San face-to-face.
They were both "thousand-year-old foxes"—who was he trying to fool? It was okay for your son and grandson to get stronger, but not for me?
That was the first time he had a direct confrontation with Tang San. For reasons unknown, Tang San didn't continue the argument afterward, but simply turned and walked away.
Of course, given Tang San's personality, he wouldn't just let it go. Following that, his domestic conflicts with Tang Wutong became increasingly prominent until they could barely stand the sight of each other. His son and daughter were ordered not to contact him at will, and Tang San used his daughter's influence to further isolate him in the God Realm...
Originally, as the Vice Chairman of the God Realm Committee, his voice and status should have been very high. But after that argument, aside from the Seven Deadly Sin Gods who were originally subordinates of the God of Destruction, he couldn't command a single deity—not even a Divine Officer.
Tang San had turned him into a figurehead...
Later, he simply stopped showing up for work at the God Realm Committee, staying in the Temple of Emotions to have some "fun" with the Snow Emperor and Liya.
Forget it, no use thinking about those things. They're in the past.
Withdrawing his thoughts, Baili Du reached out toward the void.
"Hah!"
A staff three meters long appeared in his hand. It was a blend of black, white, and gold, topped with a skull design.
While it looked a bit "sanity-draining," it was undoubtedly a full-fledged Ultra-Divine Artifact!
Relaxing his mind and body, he issued a summons to the [Necromantic Holy Magic God] Divine Position he had already created and stored within the [Spectral Plane].
A gray-gold divine wheel drifted out from the deepest reaches of the Spectral Plane and crashed into his chest. Instantly, a holy yet silent aura of death swirled around him. His clothes transformed into a gray mage robe, and his white-flecked blue hair turned to the ashen-white of an old man, as if it had lost its vitality.
The [Necromantic Holy Magic God] Martial Soul originally had only one giant gray halo, but immediately after, seven ashen-white halos rose one by one behind it.
The eight halos appeared in full, and faintly, a transparent ninth halo began to take shape.
The [Necromantic Holy Magic God] was born—a Half-step God King!
After attaching the Divine Position, his cultivation reached the realm of a Half-step God King. With the strengthened divine power, the pain in his lower abdomen significantly lessened.
Even if he wanted to stay on the Douluo Continent longer, he couldn't. The power of a Half-step God King was too conspicuous on the Douluo Plane. Neither Tang San nor Destruction were fools; they would surely notice the anomaly.
Baili Du let out a helpless sigh: "Sorry, Little Huo, I have to go ahead of you."
From the storage Divine Artifact on his wrist, he pulled out a blue-silver box that looked full of high-tech flair.
Playing with the blue-silver box, Baili Du's mood lightened a bit.
If I leave this for him, I can be at ease about his future.
This was his masterpiece, a necessity from the era of his son, Huo Zhanji.
The [Douluo World].
It wasn't some common wearable device; it was the terminal for the entire [Douluo World] system.